Was That an Accident?
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When a popular celebrity crashes his car, it could bring needed attention to a safety problem. But is it the right kind of attention?
Talking Headways Podcast: Less Congestion After Ride Hailing Cessation
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What happens when disruption disrupts the disruptor? Click and find out.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Berkeley moves to get police out of traffic enforcement (Berkeleyside, SF Chronicle, NY Times)
- New USPS truck design should be imitated (Curbed)
- More on federal bill to create e-bikes incentives (The Verge)
- Santa Cruz transit officials want vaccine priority for their drivers (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
- Richmond wants to open a homeless RV site at mostly-empty Hilltop Mall (SF Chronicle)
- Tiger Woods, driving too fast on a steep, curvy road, had a serious crash; Locals call for safety improvements (LA Times)
- More on Berkeley’s ending single-family zoning (Sierra Club, Mercury News)
- Mapping Black history puts racism on the map (Next City)
- The strange and troubled history of pedestrian malls (Governing)
- Report: Poorly timed red lights delay drivers (But why use timing to speed cars when it could, say, make biking safer?) (Smart Cities Dive)
- Outcry over CA DA Association’s misspending state funds meant for prosecuting environmental violations (The Appeal)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
Study: Low-Income Workers Relying More Heavily on Bikeshare
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Low-income and BIPOC workers are more dependent on bikeshare to get around during the pandemic than their wealthy, white counterparts, a new study finds – but the location of docking stations doesn't always prioritize their travel needs.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- State auditor says CARB overstates climate benefits of its incentive programs (CalMatters)
- People like commuting. So much so, they will fake commute (KRQE)
- Berkeley City Council moves to end single family zoning (Fox)
- Zoning for affordable housing isn’t enough to create it (CalMatters)
- To cut driving, remove free parking (Journalists Resource)
- LA Metro could launch free fare pilot next year (Urbanize)
- Much new and useful housing data is coming out of the pandemic (Urban Wire)
- New USPS mail truck unveiled – very cute, but it’s no bicycle (Jalopnik)
- Utility customers are alarmingly behind on bills (San Diego Union Tribune)
- Federal judge rules that California can enforce its net neutrality laws (AP)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
Priorities All Wrong: Metro Proposes Delaying Service Restoration While Increasing Money for Policing
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Many on the Metro board and in the public are scratching their heads on Metro doubling down on discriminatory practices at a moment when they had pledged to address the agency's historic role in perpetuating that kind of harm.
Could FAA Rule Change Offer Hope to Fix SFO Transit Mess?
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Hop on the Piccadilly Line in Central London and in 50 minutes you can debark at any of the terminals at Heathrow Airport, without changing trains. Get on BART in downtown San Francisco, and one can go directly to . . . the perimeter of the International Terminal.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Huge benefits to everyone if we made it safe for more people walk, bike, e-bike, and scoot (Planetizen)
- Payments for low-income residents approved, to be signed today by Gov Newsom (SF Chronicle)
- Housing policy on California’s legislative agenda (Terner Center)
- Capitol Corridor train plans schedule changes for spring, but not yet back to pre-pandemic service
- Report: Why California’s electricity prices are high (SF Chronicle)
- CA law requires diversity on corporate boards, but new hires are still mostly white (SF Chronicle)
- Affluent people are grabbing up L.A.’s vaccine access codes meant for low-income and people of color (LA Times)
- Berkeley to consider sweeping police reforms (and eliminating single family zoning) (SF Chronicle)
- UC Berkeley survey finds Inland Empire residents favor requiring masks, no inside dining to fight COVID (Daily Bulletin)
- What happens when corporations play a role in developing street map apps (CityLab)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
Can a Land Bridge Restore What a Black Community Lost?
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Advocates from St. Paul, Minn. are hoping to restore some of what the Black community lost when a highway was run through their core neighborhood — and to provide an unconventional model for other communities across the country to do the same.
Community-Led ‘Beautiful Boulevard’ Plan Puts Bus Rapid Transit into a Walkable Downtown Eagle Rock
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The Beautiful Boulevard proposal would retain mean great BRT, while keeping Colorado Boulevard's median, and upgrading walkability and bikeability.
Amtrak Is Ready to Grow. Will it Finally Get the Subsidy It Deserves?
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Amtrak wants intercity rail take its rightful place as an essential component of our public transportation ecosystem, rather than quasi-private afterthought.